"develop intellectually" is an appropriate phrase to use in written English.
It is used to describe the process of gaining knowledge and understanding. For example, "At school, children are encouraged to develop intellectually and challenge themselves academically."
While it may seem like a trivial issue, toys help children to learn new skills and develop intellectually, says Dinella.
Grey matter soaks up energy and only a species that can provide a reliable supply can hope to develop intellectually.
Dr. Harden predicted that an emerging understanding of the genetics of intelligence would make it possible to find better ways to help children develop intellectually.
In the Augustinian tradition, Merrimack's community embraces scholarship, service to others, and provides students with opportunities to develop intellectually, spiritually, socially, and ethically.
The young women really get an opportunity to be in a female environment and to develop intellectually, personally and academically, without always being conscious of being the woman in the room.
The next step is to call upon faculty to develop intellectually rigorous classes in military engineering, ethics, history and science — classes that are so good they will merit both university and R.O.T.C. credit.
But more to the point, the foundations of adulthood run much deeper, having to do with coping with increased responsibility while developing intellectually and emotionally.
He is known for developing intellectually rigorous and experimental performances that are as socially and politically resonant as they are personal.
Students developed intellectually by attending classes taught by a cohort of teachers who regularly shared best practices and collaborated on common thematic units.
It is a more basic sense of worth that enables an individual to develop the intellectually more sophisticated forms, a precondition for being able to take one's qualities or the fact that one is a person as grounds of positive self-worth.
This was during a recession, and the message to teenagers was clear: It matters for you, and for America, that you develop yourself intellectually.
